in January 2011 The origins of the Hull Daily Mail can be traced back to the
Hull Packet and Humber Gazette, a weekly newspaper established on 29 May 1787 that was printed on Scale Lane, a street in what is today part of Hull's Old Town. Its name was shortened to
The Hull Packet in 1788. It was renamed
The Hull Packet and Humber Mercury in 1827 before changing back to
The Hull Packet in 1833. An issue of the
Hull Packet consisted of four pages with eight columns of text on each page and cost 7d (£) to purchase. In 1857, a Saturday edition named the
Hull and North Lincolnshire Times was launched alongside the
Packet. In 1885, a consortium of Hull businessmen, including
Frederick Brent Grotrian, the
Conservative Member of Parliament for
Kingston upon Hull East, purchased the
Hull Packet, and on 29 September 1885, the first edition of the new
Hull Daily Mail was published from a printing house on
Whitefriargate. The
Hull Packet continued to be published alongside the new newspaper until 26 February 1886, closing with issue number 5,288; from 8 March 1886, the
Hull Daily Mail was published as
The Hull Daily Mail And Hull Packet. In its early years, the ''Hull Daily Mail's'' editorial stance was declared as both defensive and aggressive
conservatism, though with regard to local news and affairs, the newspaper's reporting was not influenced by national Conservative Party policy. As part of a Trinity Mirror restructure, Neil Hodgkinson, editor of the
Hull Daily Mail, was promoted to editor-in-chief in February 2016 for
Humber and
Lincolnshire regions, overseeing the
Grimsby Telegraph,
Scunthorpe Telegraph and
Lincolnshire Echo as well as the Mail. In March 2018 the Reach PLC titles for the North East, including the
Chronicle,
Journal and
Teesside Gazette, were added to his portfolio of titles. The
Hull Daily Mail changed its banner head on its website to 'Hull Live' after the company was taken over by Trinity Mirror in 2017. Trinity Mirror was re-branded Reach plc in May 2018. ==Awards==